Welcome to the Authority, Slate's His Dark Materials Podcast. It's season 2, episode 3, theft.

We're Slate's resident scholars of experimental theology. My name is Laura Miller.

I'm a books and culture columnist for

slate and my demon is the sea otter named sake. I'm Dan Coise. I'm a writer at

slate and my demon is a prairie vol named Gilda. right, we're here to talk about episode three in the second season of his dark materials.

And in this episode, everybody's looking for someone.

The witches and Mrs. Coulter are trying to find

Lyra, the pale-faced man is looking for Will, Lee Scorsby is looking for Stanisla

Scrumman who has something that might help Lyra and Will and Lyra are looking for

Will's father at the direction of the Eletheometer. And then there's Lord

Borial who's looking for not someone but something an object that will be very

important in the story ahead of us.

The man that made that doorway has a knife. I think he's hiding in the tower the one with the carved angels around it

To Italy actually bring the knife to me

And I'll give you what you want. This episode covers chapters 5 through 7 of the subtle knife.

The witches are on the brink of war with the magisterium and Mary Malone is learning

how to communicate with dust. Meanwhile, in Oxford, Lyra eludes a scary cop, discovers movies, and has her elitometer stolen by Lord Borial.

One of the kids in Chitagasa assures will that no no no there's nobody up in that

tower in the middle of town and why would he even think such a thing?

And finally, Lee Scorsby visits yet another Arctic frontier town

in search of Grumman and gets captured by the Magisterium then figures out something important

about Mrs. Coulter while he's in the dungeons. Today we'll take a closer look at

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